The LentSpace (aka Duarte Square) was briefly occupied last month following the Zuccotti Park eviction on November 15. This time there will be no hunger strike. In an open letter to LMCC Occupy Art NYC pleads:

Use of this outdoor common space is vital for the expansion of the movement’s creative and transformative work for positive social change, which we believe brilliantly aligns with LMCC’s stated mission for LentSpace as “a free outdoor cultural space open to the public,…a model for land use citywide.”

Before setting a deadline for affirmation of today, December 14th, the open letter asserts:

For this reason, the undersigned members of the arts, cultural and allied communities call upon you, as a stakeholder of Duarte Square, to endorse the creative occupation of LentSpace as a powerful and imperative expression of free speech and the open exercise of our rights of assembly.